Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 1820, Nathan Gan, N.C. Va.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Nb.
Gan, Nathan
S 1820
Va.
or Gann
B.L.H. 50.893-160-55
CONTENTS

See letter 4 th June 1833 to Hon. J. Blair.
5572
Donesborough Agency -
Nathan Gann
Washington in the State of Tennessee - who was a pr. - in the Compy commanded by Captain Verney - of the Regt commanded by Col. Sever - in the N. Car. time for 22 months from 1776 -
Inscribed on the Roll of Donesborough Agency. at the rate of $3 - Dollars 50 - Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 12 th day of Feby. 1833 - and sent to Hon. John Blair No. of Rep.
Arrears to 14th of Sept 1832 109.99 Pensional allowance ending 4 Mar. 33 36.67
$ 146.66
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Nathan Rice - Clerk, Book (D) Vol. 9 Page 205 -
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State of Tennessee Washington County
September Term 1832
On this 10th day of September 1832 Personally appeared in open court before the Honorable Samuel Powell Judge of the Circuit Court of Law & Equity for the county of Washington within the state of Ten- nessee Nathan Gann aged 73 years and resident of said county who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress passed 7th June 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated. That being at the time a resident citizen of Halifax County State of Vir- ginia & raised thereon, in the fall of the year 1776 (as well as now remembered about October) this declarant volunteered under Capt. Varnay of the Militia, to go a six months tour to the south, and rendezvoused in the State of North Carolina near Guilford Court House, and in the command of General Gates, (as well as remembered) and marched directly to Charleston and the British being on board their ships, kept off and did not land, and the American army being four thousand strong was despatched to obtain Intelligence and returned back to Camden, & there encamped & took up winter quarters & there remained until March, when the term of service for which he volunteered had expired, & two months more, which was consumed in going to & returning from the army being eight months altogether which he served on that expedition and was discharged by his said Capt. Varnay, at Halifax which he has lost in the lapse of time.
(Second Tour.) That in 1778 he removed to the frontier of North Carolina, now Tennessee, & settled in Washington County (being the County bordering on the Cherokee Nation) he volunteered under Capt. Michael Harrison of Col. Sevier's command to go on an expedition against the Cherokee Indians, and ren- dezvoused on the Holston River & marched through what is now Greene, Cocke, Sevier & Blount Counties, & penetrated the Nation, as far as Coosa, and burned & destroyed all their towns, & killed Indians and stock, & drove the remainder from the borders, & returned home after being four months in that service, & was verbally discharged by Col. Sevier.

third Tour. in 1779. he enrolled himself under Coln Gibson in the same County for six months to range the frontier and prevent Indian invasions, said service commenced in the winter of 1779 1780 and which service he performed under said Coln Gibson, until near the time at which his six months would expire, and on hearing of the approach of Ferguson, & the men going against him from the vicinity, he obtained leave from Coln Gibson to go on said expedition, & enrolled himself under Coln Christopher Taylor, for said Campaign, & was marched under Col Sevier in which Taylor commanded to Hop Creek & there joined the force under Campbell & Shelby & marched on through Bickett's Rutherford & met Col Cleveland with the North Carolina militia before the battle of Kings Mountain in which disastrous was, under said Coln Taylor, & after the battle & complete overthrow of the British under Ferguson returned home being three months in 3 d tour, & near six under Gibson in immediate succession & without interval between but received no written discharge from Col Taylor.
That immediately on his return home the Overhill Indians, had been depredating on the settlements, & Col Sevier called upon Coln Taylor & Company with others to go against them, & declarant went under said Taylor and marched through the Greasy Cove & up Indian Creek to the State of North Carolina (now) & drove & dispersed said Indians & returned home & was probably discharged by Coln Taylor (verbally) after three months service. That after ward and until the signature treaty of peace by the in frequent custom- ary, for short tours, of time against the Indians, that was not regularly officered & commanded, but on the spur of the occasion turned out to repel Indian invasions & returned when accomplished. That in the before mentioned service thus specifically set forth he served twenty two months under proper officers & discip- line, & for the residue of his time as irregulars, might regu- lar, but served until the close of the war at shorter & more irregular periods, until 1783. and indeed, long since tho, the latter service was not of the revolutionary war. He positively states that he served before the treaty of peace against the British Indians & Tories for more than three years, in the Revolution, twenty two of which he has set forth, & also served another Indian campaign under Coln Taylor above, which he had omitted to insert in its proper place, for three months against the Indians on the Tennessee river, that service was performed under Coln Taylor the winter after the Kings mountain, & declarant under Taylor, in Col Sevier & Campbell's command served with Cherokee Nation as stated by Taylor. That he has no docu- mentary evidence nor does he know of any other persons by whom he can establish his said services, except that annexed hereto. of Coln Christopher Taylor, J. C.

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the roll of the pension agency of any state nor is there a minister of the Gospel resident in his vicinity by whom he can have made the required statement. Sworn to and subscribed in open court the day and year aforesaid.
Nathan G. Ross
We Jacob Brown John Kennedy residing in the County of Washington within the state of Tennessee hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Nathan Gann who has subscribed & sworn to the above foregoing declaration that we believe him to be 73 years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood in which he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year last aforesaid.
York
Jas W Anderson Clerk
Jacob Brown John Kennedy
And the said court do hereby certify that it is his opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states, and the court further certifies, that it appears to him that Jacob Brown & John Kennedy who signed the preceding certificate are residents of the County of Washington & are credible persons, and their statement entitled to full credit.
D. MORRIS Judge of the District Court of the State of Tennessee

I James V Anderson clerk of the for said Court of Law of Equity for the County of Washington do certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Nathan Gann for a pension & also certify that the aff. of James V Anderson was sworn to in open Court the day herein In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed my seal of office this 10 th day of September 1832.
James V Anderson Clerk
Captain Christopher Taylor personally appeared in open Court & made oath that the before named applicant was a private in his company in the expedition to Kings mountain, was commanded by him the whole campaign, & after the defeat of Fergusons army was verbally discharged by him. He states further that said applicant Nathan Gann, was under his command, in the expedition against the Muckle or Over- hill Indians, & served a three months tour in that campaign & was discharged by him at the expiration of his three months. He also was under the respondent in the expedition against the Cherokees under Col. Sevier, which during this applicant has not specifically set forth in his own declaration being in so very many engagements - and not recollecting the length of time. & knows of said Nathan Gann having served the three campaigns a month in the whole to some thing near nine months. Sworn to & subscribed in open Court this 10 th September 1832.
Test James V. Anderson Clerk Christopher Taylor

Nathan Gann affordant for, increase of pension for 5 months as Lieuten- ant. in militia
May 24th 1883
now on Gen. Lord agency for private J Blair

State of Tennessee Washington County 3 May 3 rd 1833
On this 3 rd day of May personally appeared before me Levi Bowers one of the acting Justices of the peace in and for the County aforesaid Nathan Gann a citizen of said County & who is a pensioner under the act of Congress of 7 th June 1833 and for the purpose of increasing his said pension to correspond with the service by him rendered the United States in the Revolutionary war, made sworn to and subscribed before me the following explanatory and additional statement (vizt.) that in his original declaration now on file in the War Department and upon which he obtained his pension he set forth about twenty two months service & has been pensioned for the same as a private being seventy three dollars & thirty three cents. That in making out his said declaration accounting for transactions & services long gone by, he omitted from want of memory to give in a tour of duty performed by him of three months against the Chickamauga Indians, also another to the south after  where Ferguson's agent on his way to the up country. That from frailty of memory, as well as ignorance in him as to the law & previous made, he

has not received the amount to which he is entitled, & presents this additonal statement of service. That in the month of March 1778 or, well now recollecting, (he being at the time a Lieutenant in Captain Millikin's Company of North Carolina militia) and residing west of the chain of mountains in what is now East Tennessee. The Chickamauga Indians, part of the Cherokee tribe in league with the British were killing & depredating on the frontiers, the company of which he was Lieutenant volunteered to go on an expedition against said Indians, & at the time aforesaid rendezvoused at Clouds Creek, & were under Lt. Doughty, he in John Hubbard's company. Milliken who was the Captain declined going & Hubbard had the command that he as Lieutenant marched under Hubbard, & in Doughty's Regiment of Militia to the Chickamauga Town, & burned & destroyed their town & property. Spent said Indians to fight & returned home after being three months in service - Again in the winter after Ferguson's defeat (in which declarant was) & which he gave in in his origin- al declarations, in the month of December 1780. one Joseph Bullar was drafted for a six months tour of duty to go to the South where the British was passing through the Carolinas, & here declarant to go perform his tour of duty, he accordingly

enrolled himself under Col Moore, in the aforesaid militia. Col Wotten was Col, and marched across the mountains Yellow & Apalachian , and fell into the old settlements of North Carolina, and joined Cleveland's command, that on said campaign he being a Lieutenant in the company, was still continued therein as Lieutenant commanded as such on said tour, & after falling in with Cleveland, & the British having made their way down to the seaboard, provisions being very scarce, that the officers discharged the pioneer troops who had crossed the mountains, & allowed them to return home, after being in service two months, & he with Col Moore & the men under them returned home. That he served in the two tours above stated and in forced and irregular tours when the Indians would break in upon the settlements, nine months as a Lieutenant in the Revolution- ary war, for which he has no compensation tho' he cannot specify the short & irregular tours, but was in two regular calls, five months as before stated. That he did not dislike his service as Lieutenant, on the ground that he nor none of the officers of the pioneer in that part of the country was received commission, owing to the great distance from the seat of Government & the Indians being between the frontier & seat of Government of N. Carolinas. That he & the other officers acted upon the election,

in the company, & were recognized by the field officers & ordered to do all the duty as if commissioned knowing the impossibility of getting commissions in that far separated & isolated quarter. He was not aware that any thing short of actual commission would suffice until others of his company fellow officers similarly situated have received the reward to which they were entitled under like circumstances. He therefore prays that his pension may be increased according to the aforesaid grade if to no greater extent than for the two terms stated tho he served irregularly as Lieutenant several months more.
Sworn to & subscribed before me
this date first before written.
Patricia Lee
Levi Bowers
Justice of the peace
Washington County
I know Levi Bowers Esqr to be an acting justice of the peace for Washington County and in commission, & the above signatures and attestations to be genuine. J. Blair

The State of Texas } County of Cherokee }
111 325
On this 21st day of July 1851. Personally appeared before me W. H. Briggs a Notary Public in and for the County of Cherokee and State of Texas James H. Gann a resident of the County and State aforesaid who being duly sworn, according to law as the friend of Sarah G. Gann, a child of Waltham Gann, deceased, of Waltham County and State of Tennessee, did declare that the said Waltham Gann served in the Revolutionary War and under Act of Congress for relief of Revolutionary Soldiers received a Pension for life, that said Pension was granted while a citizen of Washington County in the State of Tennessee and that the payments were made at the Pension agency at Knoxville, in the State of Tennessee up to the time of his death, that he died in the County of Washington and State of Tennessee July 18 th 1839 and he has refers to the evidence upon which said Pension was granted to establish this claim.
He makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty Land to which Sarah G. Gann a minor child of Waltham Gann dec d aged Nineteen years may be entitled under Act of Congress passed 3rd March 1831.
James H. Gann.
We the undersigned and Mary H. Gann residents of the County of Cherokee in the State of Texas upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed in our presence that we were personally and well acquainted with Waltham Gann, deceased, during his life time, that he died at the time stated in the above declaration that he drew a Pension as is stated in the foregoing declaration and that we are personally and well acquainted with Sarah G. Gann the minor described above that she is aged Nineteen years, that they have been personally and well acquainted with her from childhood that she is all and the only minor child of the said Waltham Gann dec d .

And that the said Nathan Gunn deceased has no widow living and that we have no interest in this claim
Samson Gunn Mary M. Gunn
The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written, and I Certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons, And that the claimant is the person he represents himself to be and that I have no interest in this Claim
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of Office
G. W. Briggs Notary Public

December 13, 1932
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BA-J/AWF
Nathan Gan-S.1820
Leroy Taylor-S.1934
Quartermaster General Memorial Branch War Department Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your request for the records of Nathaniel Gann and Leroy Taylor, soldiers of the War of the Revolution.
You are furnished, herewith, the record of Nathan (the name does not appear as Nathaniel) Gan or Gann, and the record of Leroy (Leeroy, Leroy) Taylor.
Nathan Gan-S.1820
The data which follow were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, S. 1820, based upon the Revolutionary War service of Nathan Gan or Gann.
The date and place of his birth are not given. He stated that was "raised" in Halifax County, Virginia.
While residing in that county, he enlisted in October, 1778 and served about six months in Captain Verney's Virginia company.
He moved to the frontier of North Carolina and settled in Washington County, which was later Tennessee.
In March, 1778 he was a lieutenant in Captain Millikin's Company of North Carolina militia and served a tour against the Chickamauga Indians, served a tour under Captain Hubbard, also a tour under Captain Moore and Colonels Wotten and Cleveland, was in an expedition against the Cherokee Indians, four months under Captain

Michael Harrison and Colonel Sevier; in the winter of 1779 served almost six months in Captain Gibson's company as a horseman to range the frontier; three months in Captain Christopher Taylor's company in Colonel Sevier's regiment and was in the battle of Kings Mountain; a tour of three months against the "Overhill Indians" in Captain Christopher Taylor's company under Colonels Sevier and Campbell. He stated he served nine months as a lieutenant and twenty- one months as a captain.
this number is in error
He was allowed pension on his application executed September 10, 1832, then aged seventy-three years and living in Washington County, Tennessee.
He died July 18, 1839 in Washington County, Tennessee.
Journal data only.
Deceased wid. Sarah - no fur info here In 1836 wid when dead v a minute child Sarah S. Starn, 19 yrs - res. Tilts Co Tenn Barnes v Mary M. Barnes in 1856 res. Chester Co Tenn no info
Laroy Taylor-S.1934
The data furnished herein were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, S. 1934, based upon the Revolutionary War service of Laroy (Leroy, Leroy) Taylor.
The date and place of his birth are not stated.
While residing in Burke County, North Carolina, he volunteered in September or October, 1776 under Captain Reuben White and Colonel Charles McDowell in the North Carolina militia. A few weeks later his captain was killed by the Indians and he was put in command of the company, and served more than three months. He was captain from March 27, 1778 until February 8, 1779 under Colonels Beekman and McDowell, in which time he served on short tours.
He moved in the spring of 1780 to western North Carolina, later Tennessee and settled in Washington County and served two months as captain of Light Horsemen on the frontier against the Cherokee Indians.
He was allowed pension on his application executed

cuted September 14, 1832, then aged seventy-four years and living in Washington County, Tennessee.
He died March 24, 1834.
The applications for headstones for Nathaniel Gann and Leroy Taylor, with all correspondence relative thereto, are returned herewith.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Assistant to Administrator
Gravestone Data only

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Nathan Jan. Pris. N. G. L.
Act: June 7. 1892.
Index: — Vol. 9 , Page 136
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1932 Dec 13 - Jonathan D. D. M. B. C.

JACK VILLE TX. July 28
Free
2514.335-
Hon S. Hinton Commr. Pensions Washington
A.C.

Jacksonville Texas July 28 1886.
Sir
Enclosed find Claim of Sarah S. Gann , Minor child of Nathan Gann decd, to Pensions
Yrs W. W. Briggs
Hon D. Minor Commsr of Pensions Washington D.C.

Pension Office
Dec 19/56
Sir Nathan Gan. Tenn e
act 1832 - to what time paid? Did he leave a widow ?
Very respectfully
S. C. C.
R. J. Atkinson Esq. for Comm e Third audr
3 d audit office Dec 20. 1835
Sir, Nathan Gan. Foreboro' Tenn. act 1832, died 11 July 1837. Paid in full in that state. Name of widow Sarah Gan.
Yours Resp y
Not for trans.
Geo. C. Whiting Esq. Auditor Comm e of Pensions Dood

9833 Nathan Gann
from 1776 print 22 months.
$ 73 \frac{33}{100}
By John Blair